Herbie Hancock Quotes

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I don't want to follow in the footsteps of anybody that went before, because they didn't do what I want to do.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

I always wanted to beat my own path.

I don't want to be like anyone else or do what someone else did. I want to be like me and do what's best for me. I can't go do stuff Cardi B did - that may not work for me.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

You need to be your own individual.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I've already created my own thing.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.